Working in the Home Care Industry and the people relying on them. Plus, doing your taxes might just get easier. Just push a button saying, yes, this is my return. Thats really simple. We explore the irs new program to modernize how you file your taxes and and its an all too familiar story for many small towns in america. Businesses and factories close and the people leave the property that they own started to diminish. But for africatown, alabama is, as jones, a hometown hero, has returned to rebuild the place that gave him his start. My dream for for africatown is that everybody can see the history. Im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Americans are living longer than past generations and that can mean facing hard choices about how to manage their Ongoing Health care needs. With the high cost of assisted living, many seniors are aging at home. Theyre r relying on hohome care workers for much needed help with day to day l life. But therees a sevevere stafffg shortage. Indudust
Mugged yesterday, this is not a good thing, is it . Responsible for youngsters to demand a better Work Life Balance . And finally, and finally, theres football. Thats what we are talking about. Football. Man city and man united will clash later today in the fa cup, with one team from manchester looking to create more history and the other attempting to salvage something from a fairly miserable season. Hey, but this miserable season. Hey, but this show is nothing without you and your views, especially on a bank houday your views, especially on a Bank Holiday Weekend. So let me know your thoughts on all the stories well be discussing and anything you want to talk about. Basically, its really easy. You visit gbnews. Com forward slash. Its on the screen there. Youll its on the screen there. Youll say and join the conversation. Or you can message me if more simple on our socials gbnews. But first lets get those news headunes but first lets get those News Headlines with Cameron Walker. Done.
To transfer. The patient to the hospital, the situation becomes worse and the number of available ambulances gets reduced. This isnt a new thing. This has happened periodically over the years and its not unique to contra costa. Since september, the number of ambulances has increased from 54 to 72 per day, but Officials Say theyve received 240 calls for an ambulance this year alone. More than two thirds of them needed serious advanced medical attention, and paramedics are hard to hire and keep. We are putting up to a dozen firefighter emts through Paramedic School and then our subcontractor, amr, is also putting many of their emts who want to become paramedics through this Paramedic School, hospitals are overburdened and understaffed with hospital wait times for ambulances up to an hour at places like contra costa regional and john muir, walnut creek. We have seen some success with sutter delta in antioch, who has reduced their ambulance patient offload time in the last 12 months by a f
Violence directed gun violence directed at our police officers. Ive been doing this a very long time. Ive never seen us San Jose Police officers take so much gunfire in such a short period of time. Apartment complex residents called 911, which brought a swarm of police officers. Neighbor jorge chavez used his cell phone to show officers converging on the van after the initial shooting. We hear a gunshot, and we. At first we thought it was like a firecracker, but we didnt think much of it. And later we hear like two more gunshots. And then thats when i looked out to the kitchen window and i saw there was like a van with broken windows. Villarreal was eventually cornered by three officers, all three on the force. Three and a half years. Four years and four and a half years fired, hitting and dropping the suspect. This apartment complex was filled with people enjoying a warm sunday evening. Families, friends and children were safe one minute and the next in grave danger. What they did nex
Against the backdrop of the war in gaza, the bodies of iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and irans foreign minister were recovered following an hours long search. A helicopter carrying those two key leaders, along with six others, crashed in a mountainous area near irans northern border. Welcome everyone to the for this afternoon. Im alex savage and im heather holmes. Experts saying this deadly crash could not have come at a worse time with increased tensions there in the middle east. We want to bring in now our jana katsuyama, whos been monitoring the situation and also has some bay area reaction. Yes, and i spoke to some local expats who had frankly been supportive of the opposition. And they say that they are relieved that there will be a new election. Irans ayatollah, the Supreme Leader, named the Vice President as interim president today. I spoke with several bay area scholars who say this is a big blow to the regime losing two of its top leaders, president raisi and the hardline fo